Improvement in detachable handles for knives and forks



` that the following isa full, clear, and exact descrip- `tablecutlery 4provided with handles which are injured `lowing detail description.

" fig. 3, and provided lwith a socket, d., for the tang of d vtirely through the handle from side to side, as shown,y `and in this case rivets c c are used to strengthen the fkiiifc or fork in its handle, as will be hereinafter dehandle at either side, and-in this case the rivets c c knife or fork to its handle. v

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.LEROY BOYNION- AND WILLIAM' E. PENNSYLVANIA.

SWEET, .or JACKSON TOWNSHIP,

Leiters Paten-t No. 100,717, dated March 15, 1870.`

IMPROVEMENT INDETACHABLE HANDLES POR KNVCES AND FORKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all lwhoml it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEROY Bovmoxy and WIL- of Tioga, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Detachable Handles for Knives and Forks; and we do hereby declare tion of the same, sutlicient to enable others skilled in the artto which my invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a vicw of a knife detached from the handle;

Figure 2 is a top 'view of a fork provided with our improved handle, oneside of which is removed; and

Figure 3 is a side view of the handle detached. Thisinvention relates especially to that class of by immersion in hot water, which is necessary in cleaning `the knives and forks. I

Our Objectis to provide a detachable handle, having simple and durable fastening devices, so that, when it is required to place the knives and forks in water, t 1e handles can be `readily detached and separately cleaned, and afterward appliedto the cutlery.

'lhe invention consists in a spring catch, pivoted in a suitable recess in thehandle, and so arranged as to engage automatically with a notch formed in the inner end of the tang of the knife or fork, as the tang is forced into the handle.

Our invention will be fully understood from the fol- In the drawings- A represents a knife, and B a fork, each having a similar tang or shank, (l, and '1) is the detachable handle.

lhe handle may be made in one piece, asshown in I the knifeor fork, or it may. be made intwo parts, securedtogether in any suitable manner.

',lhe socket a will usually be made to extend enparts, and also to'prevent lateral movement of the scribed.

'lhe socket may not extend entirely through lthe will b e unnecessary.` I E'represcnts the fastening-device which holds the This fastening is. pivoted at fi, in a recess of the handle, and is iiush with the suriaceof the latter. LIAM F. SWEET, of Jackson township, inthe county e is a catch, formed at onefend of the part E,

adapted to engage automatically with a notch, o, in

sockeaa, extending entirely through, the rivets c c are inserted, as before described, and the shanksor tangs of the cutlery are made with open slots h, which receive the rivets as the knife or fork and the handle are brought together, as shown in iig. 2.

By this means, in connection with the spring catch,

'the attachment of the handle to the cutlery is made rigid. i As before stated, the rivets c are unnecessary when the socketc does not extend through the handle from side to side, and consequently the shanks C of the knives and forks are not slotted.-

To apply the handle to a knife or fork, it'is only necessary to insert the shank Cinto the socket c, and force the parts together until the catch c engages am tomatically with the notch o.

VTo detach the handle, pressure is exerted ou the surface f of part E by the thumb or otherwise, and

the knife or fork withdrawn. I

\Ve design so making the knives and forks that the,

handles may be applied indiscriminately.

The advautagesof our invention will be obvious a spring-catch and rivets c c, all substantially as herein described.

To the above specification of our invention we have signed our names this 15th day of July, 1869, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

' l LEROY BOYNTON.

W. F. SWEET.

Witnesses:

E. KIRKENDALL, M. K. RE'IAU. 

